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Responsive Images: Merge Proposal
The RICG WordPress Team is proposing a partial merge of the RICG Responsive Images plugin into coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. in version 4.4. Specifically, we are proposing to add native srcset and sizes support to WordPress (ticket #33641). Purpose As of today, the average web page…
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Feature Plugin Merge Proposal: oEmbed
For the past 6 years, users have been able to embed YouTube videos, tweets and many other resources on their sites through a nifty feature called oEmbed. Today, we (mainly me, @pento and @melchoyce) ask to consider extending this feature by merging the oEmbed API plugin into WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required…
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Week in Core: Sept. 21-27, 2015
Oh Snap!, it’s time to usher in a new edition of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.! If you have the time, throw a house party with some friends and read the full force of changes on Trac; if not, don’t sweat it —…
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Shortcode Roadmap Draft Two
This is the second draft of the ShortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site. APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each…
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oEmbed Update: September 28th
As of today, the current version of the oEmbed feature plugin is 0.9.0. These are the biggest changes since last week: There is now an is_embed conditional tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be…
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#needs-screenshots, #has-screenshots, and multi-device dogfooding of visual change
I’m attempting to provide before and after screenshots for all (most) visual changes that land in trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running “trunk”, then you are on the latest revision., on multiple devices. These screenshots are used in visual changelogs…
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Responsive Images Feature Plugin Update
It’s been a busy week over in #feature-respimg world! We are now using a display filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner,…
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Changes to fields output by comment_form in WordPress 4.4
A change in WordPress that just landed in trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running “trunk”, then you are on the latest revision. is to move the comment textarea to the top for logged-out users when replying. This is done largely…
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4.4 Dev Chat, September 23: Suggest items for today’s agenda
Here are my agenda items for today’s Dev Chat in the #core channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Time/Date: : Gardening REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP…
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This week in Twenty Sixteen
The usual meetings at 16:00 UTC have been held in #core-themes on Monday and Fridays. There was a slightly longer meeting this week to work through issues and pull requests. Twenty Sixteen looks good for a merge to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.…